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April 28 is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 247 days remaining.
Events
1700-1899
1900-1999
- 1920 - Azerbaijan is added to the Soviet Union.
- 1930 - The first night game in organized baseball history takes place in Independence, Kansas.
- 1932 - A vaccine for yellow fever is announced for use on humans.
- 1937 - The Museum of Costume Arts opens in New York City.
- 1945 - Benito Mussolini and his mistress Clara Petacci are shot to death by members of the Italian resistance movement while trying to flee Italy.
- 1947 - Thor Heyerdahl and five crewmates set out from Peru on the Kon-Tiki to prove that Peruvian natives could have settled Polynesia.
- 1952 - Dwight D. Eisenhower resigns as Supreme Commander of NATO in order to run for President of the United States.
- 1952 - Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends.
- 1965 - United States troops land in the Dominican Republic to "forestall establishment of a Communist dictatorship" and to evacuate Americans.
- 1969 - Charles de Gaulle resigns as President of France.
- 1970 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon formally authorizes American combat troops to fight communist sanctuaries in Cambodia.
- 1977 - The Red Army Faction trial ends, with Andreas Baader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jan-Carl Raspe being found guilty of four counts of murder and more than 30 counts of attempted murder.
- 1978 - Afghanistan President Mohammed Daoud Khan is overthrown and assassinated in a coup led by procommunist rebels.
- 1987 - The 27-year old American engineer Ben Linder is killed in an ambush by US-funded Contras in northern Nicaragua. His death sets off a fierce debate in the United States.
- 1988 - Near Maui, Hawaii a flight attendant is sucked out of an Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 and falls to her death when an upper part of the plane's cabin area rips off in mid-flight. Metal fatigue is later found to be the cause of the failure.
- 1990 - After 6,237 performances, the Broadway musical A Chorus Line closes.
- 1994 - Former Central Intelligence Agency official Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to giving US secrets to the Soviet Union and later Russia.
- 1996 - Whitewater scandal: President Bill Clinton gives 4 1/2 hour videotaped testimony for the defense.
- 1996 - The world's worst 'spree killer' of all time, Martin Bryant, kills 35 people, and wounds another 18 at the Port Arthur massacre in Tasmania, Australia.
- 1997 - The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, signed in Paris in January 1993, goes into effect. Russia, Iraq and North Korea were notable nations who had not ratified the treaty.
- 2003 - Apple Computer's iTunes Music Store released, sells 1,000,000 songs in first week.
Births
1400-1899
1900-1999
- 1900 - Bruno Apitz, author (d. 1979)
- 1906 - Kurt Gödel, mathematician (d. 1978)
- 1908 - Oskar Schindler, businessman (d. 1974)
- 1923 - Horst-Eberhard Richter, psychoanalyst
- 1928 - Yves Klein, painter (d. 1962)
- 1928 - Eugene M. Shoemaker, planetary scientist (d. 1997)
- 1930 - James Baker, politician
- 1937 - Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq
- 1941 - Ann-Margret, actress
- 1948 - Terry Pratchett, author
- 1950 - Jay Leno, comedian
- 1958 - Hal Sutton, American golfer
- 1966 - John Daly, American golfer
- 1974 - Penélope Cruz, actress
- 1981 - Jessica Alba, actress
- 1977 - Michael Reichel, Telepath
Deaths
1700-1899
1900-1999
2000-2099
Holidays and observances
April 27 - April 29 - March 28 - May 28 -- listing of all days
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